Ralph Michael
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- Not be confused with actor Michael Ralph.
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Born | Ralph Champion Shotter 26 September 1907 Edmonton, London, England |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Brighton, Sussex, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1937-1994 |
Spouse(s) | Joyce Heron |
Ralph Michael (26 September 1907 – 9 November 1994) was an English actor.[1] He was born as Ralph Champion Shotter in London. His film appearances included Dead of Night, A Night to Remember, Children of the Damned, Grand Prix, The Assassination Bureau and Empire of the Sun.[2]
Television credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Tale of Two Cities, Dixon of Dock Green, Danger Man, Kessler, The Forsyte Saga, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, Colditz, Doctor at Large, Public Eye, Sutherland's Law, Softly, Softly, The Professionals, Rumpole of the Bailey, Prince Regent, Doctor Who (in the serial The Pirate Planet), Bergerac, Miss Marple, Dempsey and Makepeace, Rockliffe's Babies, Howards' Way, A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster.[1]
In Dempsey and Makepeace, Ralph Michael played the part of Lord Winfield, Harriet Makepeace's father, in three episodes, "Armed and Extremely Dangerous", "Make Peace not War" and "Cry God for Harry".[3][4] They had previously been in the same cast in an episode of Blake's 7 entitled "Assassin".
Personal life
He was married twice. He was the fourth and last husband of actress Fay Compton (they divorced in 1946 after he had an affair with the actress Patricia Roc), and he was later married to actress Joyce Heron. [5]
Partial filmography
- The Girl Who Forgot (1940)
- San Demetrio London (1943)
- For Those in Peril (1944)
- Johnny Frenchman (1945)
- Dead of Night (1945)
- A Song for Tomorrow (1948)
- The Astonished Heart (1950)
- The Sound Barrier (1952)
- Women Without Men (1956)
- A Night to Remember (1958)
- The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
- Private Potter (1962)
- Children of the Damned (1964)
- Murder Most Foul (1964)
- A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
- He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
- The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
- Khartoum (1966)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- House of Cards (1968)
- The Assassination Bureau (1969)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)
- Lionheart (1987)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
References
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External links
- Ralph Michael at the Internet Movie Database
- Ralph Michael at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Ralph Michael at Find a Grave